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Slave prices, geography and insolation in 19th century African-American stature
Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599461
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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration
Flückiger, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; Larch, Mario; … - 2019 - This version: July 2019
We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033121
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The rate of return on everything, 1870-2015
Jordà, Òscar; Knoll, Katharina; Kuvshinov, Dmitry; … - 2018
This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century. What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a tendency for returns to fall in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794864
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Sovereign bonds since Waterloo
Meyer, Josefin; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2019
This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973856
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How do financial crises redistribute risk?
Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323137
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Structural transformation and value change : the British abolitionist movement
Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - 2023
affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364990
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The empire project : trade policy in interwar Canada
Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - 2023
This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275962
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Voodoo versus fishing committees : the role of traditional and contemporary institutions in fischeries management
Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2015
We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491707
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European trade, colonialism and human capital accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770-1900
Cappelli, Gabriele; Baten, Jörg - 2017
trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653651
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Maize and precolonial Africa
Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018
Columbus's arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845203